Check this page regularly for the Earth Sciences Seminar Series schedule as well as Special Seminars hosted by the Department.Microbial controls on biogeochemical carbon cycling in marine sediments
Rockfest Seminar Schedule
All seminars are in room 2093 of the Earth Sciences Centre, 22 Russell Street. Most talks are scheduled to start at NOON however, some Special Seminars will have other start times. Please check the schedule or event calendar!
ES Seminars Schedule 2019 – 2020
Time: Noon (unless otherwise stated)
Place: ES2093 “Seminar Room”
12 September 2019 | Noon | Sarah Gleeson GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam |
Dan Gregory | SEDEX | Diagenesis, Sulfur, and Giant Zn Deposits |
03 October 2019 | Noon | John Jamieson Memorial University |
Melissa Anderson | VHMS | Ore-forming processes on the seafloor – understanding the difference between black smoker vent fields and the formation of metal-rich massive sulfide mineral deposits |
16 October 2019 *Special Geophysics Seminar* |
Noon |
Marion Jegen-Kulcsar
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Geophysics | ||
17 October 2019 Joubin James Lecturer |
Noon |
Andrei Swidinsky |
Qinya Liu | Geophysics | From the seafloor to the solar wind: Applied geophysics, electromagnetic fields and 21st century problems |
23 October 2019 |
***4:00pm*** |
Heloise Lynn |
SEG – Society of Exploration Geophysicists 2019 Honorary Lecturer |
Azimuthal P-P seismic measurements: Past, present, and future | |
5 November 2019 |
Noon |
Alastair McClymont |
Charly Bank |
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The Forgotten Holocaust – Geophysical Investigations at World War 2 Extermination Sites in Lithuania |
14 November 2019 | Noon | Kim Lau | Dan Gregory | U istotope | Tracking Anoxia in Ancient Oceans: Insights from uranium isotopes |
21 November 2019 Joubin James Lecture |
Noon |
Alberto Vitale Brovarone |
Xu Chu |
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28 November 2019 | Noon | Alison Malcolm | Qinya Lui | Seismic | |
SPRING TERM | |||||
09 January 2020 | Noon | Verena Heuer | Barbara Sherwood Lollar | IODP deep biosphere |
Exploring the limits of Earth’s habitability by scientific ocean drilling: The impact of temperature on microbial life and carbon flow in deep sub-seafloor sediments |
23 January 2020 | Noon | Erasmus Oware | Charly Bank | geophysics |
Agricultural Geophysics: New Opportunities in applications of Geophysics |
06 February 2020 |
Noon | Eileen van der Flier-Keller | Charly Bank | geoscience education | Empowering students to Communicate Science: the SFU experience |
27 February 2020 | Noon | Britta Jensen | Sarah Finkelstein | quaternary |
Extending the reach of volcanic ash: cryptotephra in eastern North America |
12 March 2020 | Noon | John Geissman | Sandra Kamo | Paleomagnetism and Magnetostratigraphy of Upper Permian to Lower Triassic (?) Beaufort Group Strata in the Karoo Basin, South Africa: Where is the Permian-Triassic Boundary and Can We “See Through” the Effects of Karoo Large Igneous Province Magmatism? (along with some other musings) | |
20 March 2020 | Noon | Laura Waters | Dan Gregory | Why doesn’t continental crust evolve to its fullest potential? |
Other Seminars
2019 – 2020 Geophysics Seminar Series
KEGS Seminars are held in the Seminar Room – ES2093 during the regular term
Walker Mineralogical Club meets in ES2093 monthly.